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The Arctic: Exploration Timeline

Arctic discovery timeline

Arctic Timeline: Ancient Times from 330 BC to 1000 AD
Arctic Timeline from 1594-1610
Arctic Timeline from 1725-1779
Arctic Timeline from 1776-1779
Arctic Timeline from 1819-1831
Arctic Timeline from 1845-1873
Arctic Timeline 1878
Arctic Timeline from 1879-1882
Arctic Timeline from 1882-1884
Arctic Timeline from 1886-1909
Arctic Timeline from 1893-1895
Arctic Timeline from 1903-1905
Arctic Timeline from 1910-1915
Arctic Timeline from 1918-1925
Arctic Timeline 1930
Arctic Timeline 1958
Arctic Timeline from 1970-1990s
Arctic Timeline from 1993-1998
Arctic Timeline from 2007-2008
Average arctic ice concentration for March, 1979.
Average arctic ice concentration for March, 1979. Image courtesy of NASA Visible Earth.

1970-1990s
Many modern scientific expeditions are launched to study the Arctic Ocean. Studies of the geology, biology, chemistry and physical oceanography are on-going, and use ice stations, ice breakers and, more recently, autonomous underwater vehicles. To learn more about these expeditions, go to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project.

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